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Originally Posted by cougjunkie
When i was in the first grade, and i still remember this vividly to this day. I was becoming very involved in sports and was a huge sports fan. Well most of the kids at my school liked whoever was winning. So i decided then that i was going to pick my teams and always follow them. The Spurs had just drafted a Center from Navy by the name of David Robinson. I was excited and loved watching D-rob in college so i picked San Antonio.
The Dolphins threw the ball a ton and i wanted to be a quarterback and always loved Dan Marino so i picked Miami.
The Giants had my all-time favorite athlete on the team at the time Will "the Thrill" Clark. They were also local, my friend growing up his dad was a tugboat driver and we would take his boat over to candlestick and watch the games. I was at the game where Dave Justice hit hte longest homerun in Candlestick history beating kevin Mitchells record, consequently that same game Tom Glavine pitched a 1 hitter. That started my hatred for Atlanta then the 1993 playoff run didnt help. So the Giants became the team.
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All good reasons for choosing your teams.
For me, I became a Baltimore Orioles fan when I was 8 years old and my uncle who is from Baltimore took me with him and my aunt back to Baltimore for some family business. My uncle had a friend who was a part of the ground crew at the old War Memorial Stadium and this guy got me onto the field during batting practice. He introduced me to Brooks Robinson and Robinson got a new ball from the equipment manager and then introduced me to each and every one of the Orioles and had them sign the ball. (Names on the ball include Robinson, Jim Palmer, Don Baylor, Paul Blair, Al Bumbry, Bob Grich and Earl Weaver). Weaver even suggested that I take a little bit of BP and Jim Palmer pitched 5 or 6 balls to me. They gave me a hat and a Louisville Slugger bat and then my uncle and I sat in box seats right near the Orioles dugout.
I was hooked for life.
Choosing the Broncos as my NFL team is much less interesting. It was the same year that I chose the Orioles and I just liked the orange uniforms.
BTW - I played against Will Clark in a 3 game series when he was at Miss. State and I was at Marist. He was a terrific player then and they took 2 of 3 games from us.